Tech.Co

MAY 18, 2017

Direct Relief is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that provides medical assistance to people around the world who have been affected by poverty, natural disasters, and civil unrest. Ross Organic. Ross Organic is a specialty distributor in the personal care, home care, and industrial cleaning markets. Direct Relief.

Los Angeles

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

It’s easy to assume in a small organization that everybody read our employee handbook and generally knows right from wrong but of course companies big and small should never take this for granted. In the afternoon we had a partner session with a separate facilitator in which we talked more broadly about bias, diversity & inclusion.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we look at investing in companies we often look at their communities and the social engagement as an indicator of whether there is organic demand for the product (vs. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

Product

Berkonomics

JULY 12, 2018

I recommend that you drop everything and buy this book, read it, and if you find it as powerful as I did, purchase copies for your management team, followed by planned discussions among team members about removing bottlenecks and improving efficiency throughout the organization. How dangerous is a bottleneck?

Organization

L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 23, 2021

What’s keeping executives up at night these days? Cyber attacks and IT breaches.

Organization

Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

If you have been following the last several weeks of these postings, then now we’re getting organized. The structure combined the listing of the goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. What is a strategy?

Organization

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Less than a month after Waymo’s Los Angeles County expansion, labor organizers and an LA lawmaker are calling for new autonomous-vehicle regulations.

Los Angeles

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

The “doers” in your organization. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. They want to help the organization determine what must be built and when. The nuance and neuroses of these living organisms. Most companies that are scaling have CFOs, heads of HR or talent.

Entrepreneur

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Think of it as Bloomberg for marketers, in a way that gives smaller companies and teams as much firepower as larger organizations to help them optimize spend across channels and identify new, high-performing opportunities. Founders, marketers and growth leaders?—?join join the Trust waitlist here.

Product

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

The World Health Organization approved their sanitizers, which the company will produce in its warehouse in San Francisco. Bulk quantities will be distributed to healthcare organizations and facilities that need them. Bulk quantities will be distributed to healthcare organizations and facilities that need them.

Company

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

If you think about your organization as a sports team or a symphony you realize that synchronization of activities is key. The organization gets used to it and adjusts. And you build an organization of under-empowered people. These are always mistakes in a growing company. It sets the wrong culture.

Startup

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

One great source for coaches is among fellow members of a CEO roundtable organization, Young Presidents Organization or similar association where you are comfortable with the coach candidate and know something about his or her style. Another is through industry associations or civic groups such as Rotary or Lions Club.

Coach

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

You finally need to start planning your product roadmap a bit further than your 2-week sprints so that the rest of the organization has a chance to preplan for new features. The C-round CEO still gets her hand dirty but shouldn’t be a control freak or become a bottleneck in the organization. But you have him now.

Startup

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based Worth Network, a new software startup, is aiming to help marketers reach more consumers via organic Instagram posts, the company said today. The company says it has built software that identifies a brand's best customers on social media and converts them to marketers by paying them to post organic Instagram stories.

Networking

Berkonomics

AUGUST 26, 2021

With some people you hire, you know you are just renting their services as they pass through your organization, aimed at a higher calling. When we accept the work commitment from a person we hire, we make a pact with the new employee that often stops at agreeing to pay for service rendered and to provide a safe working environment.

Statistics

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I am chairman of the Technology Division of the ABL Organization, a roundtable organization with multiple CEO roundtables of about twelve members each, meeting monthly. 15% might be spent networking with those in the CEO’s relationship circle, including the roundtable organizations.

Class

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 9, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. We have been working with GM Medical and Security to monitor the situation closely and have been following recommendations for the U.S. The Lyriq is just one in a roster of electric vehicles that GM plans to bring to market in the next two years.

Los Angeles

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Email readers, continue here…] The same careful management applies to virtually every person and process in the organization. Such a culture of quality engineering has an additional benefit in creating a higher bar for all to see, making the public statement that quality is a top priority. Is this just your problem?

Examples

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

Resource

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2019

David Wood: We make event planning software for social organizations. It's all about a social organization, like a Boy Scout group, a Girl Scout group, a religious organization like a church, K-12 such as when they do field outings, but also holiday parties and company meetings, sales force organizations.

Startup

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2020

San Diego-based ClickUp , a startup which develops "remote work" software aimed at helping organizations collaborate on projects, has raised $35M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Craft Ventures, and also included Georgian Partners. As part of the funding, David Sacks has joined the board.

Netflix

L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 1, 2020

Chief, a private executive organization designed to help women network their way into positions of power, had big plans to open a 13,000-square-foot, multiuse clubhouse on La Cienega Boulevard near Melrose Avenue this spring.

Design

Berkonomics

JULY 13, 2017

Will you have to be both the evangelist for the product and for its marketplace as well? Few early stage companies have the resources to do both.

Resource

Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2023

Continuing the process of planning… So now we’re getting organized. And I’s my favorite method of organizing a strategic plan. The structure combines the listing of your goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization.

Organization

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We actually started the organization in 2013. Justin Lassoff: Part of our organization is we have founding advisors. Justine Lassoff: Melinda and I founded TuesdayNights to help women connect and to impact change through networking events and infinite gatherings. I think one of the hardest things for women, is to access capital.

Help

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Unlike Nextdoor which organizes communities based on zip codes or neighborhoods, OneRoof wants to build up a presence inside large multi-unit buildings so that neighbors can get to know each other in smaller, tighter-knit circles. OneRoof is building a social network for residential buildings.

Social Network

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] The same careful management applies to virtually every person and process in the organization. Such a culture of quality engineering has an additional benefit in creating a higher bar for all to see, making the public statement that quality is a top priority.

Resource

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Think for a minute whether there is any process or person that could be classed as the eye of the needle in your organization. But the unintentional effect was that she inserted herself into every process as the bottleneck that actually defeated her goal of making her organization a model of efficiency and quality.

Organization

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Today, we share the thoughts of Greg Monterrosa ,a startup community leader who is currently Startup Weekend organizer, facilitator, and mentor and was a former Founder of MyLLC.com and Hub101. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? The continued growth of startup communities in Los Angeles.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

Some firms have said that they’re going to turn to HBCUvc , a nonprofit organization that helps students from historically Black colleges and universities enter venture and tech. Among the strategies? Team up with Black firms already doing the work.

Equity

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Today, virtual offices are accepted at all levels of many organizations of all sizes. So, can a startup exist for a reasonably long time as a virtual company? A decade ago there was a stigma that prevented many CEO’s from thinking it possible.

Startup

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board.

Invest

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Numerous individuals and organizations leverage the insights from The TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks to enhance their framework’s performance. Renowned as one of the leading projects of its kind, it benchmarks the peak performance of server-side web application frameworks and platforms, primarily using tests contributed by the community.

Framework

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As the algorithms, best practices, and expertise required for effective digital marketing rapidly evolve, organizations need instant access to expert talent to fill gaps in their internal teams.”

Marketing

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] I am chairman of the Technology Division of the ABL Organization, a roundtable organization with multiple CEO roundtables of about twelve members each, meeting monthly. 15% might be spent networking with those in the CEO’s relationship circle, including the roundtable organizations.

Class

Berkonomics

JUNE 24, 2021

Worse yet, failures to delegate make the leader the principal bottleneck in the flow of work through an organization. Email readers, continue here…] A great leader is a great cheerleader, knowing when and how to reward effective achievement through all levels of the organization. A great leader learns to delegate, first.

Organization

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations. The art of collaboration is now taught as a key success skill at every level within organizations. Maybe it’s time to take a hard look at your own organization, and a hard look in the mirror, before your golden gut comes back to bite you in the butt. Marty Zwilling.

Organization